The Ultimate Guide to Historical Romance Books 🗡️✨ Where to start, best series, and bodice rippers

This one is her just like without a doubt, no question, most famous book... Love this one.

And I've also read Whisper of Roses by this author and loved it and I cannot recommend her enough.

Again the Magic, I feel like, is another favorite of hers... Again the Magic is kind of like the prequel of it, but such a good classic series.

My favorite is Destiny's Surrender. She's a sex worker. He sleeps with her, gets her pregnant, so it's a surprise pregnancy, and then they have to be together. All of these, they're so good.

If you have heard Devil in Winter is probably one of the most iconic books by her other than Dreaming of You... He is definitely a morally gray hero in this one, but I really love this entire series as well.

It definitely makes for an interesting romance, and so I loved this one... And again, problematic, but I enjoyed reading it.

We also recently read Honor's Splendor I think is what she wrote as well and it was really good.

Night Song and Indigo are my favorites... Such an iconic romance. I would love to read this again.

My Darling Duke by Stacey Reid. This one also really made the rounds... It is so good.

Night Secrets by Kat Martin. This one is a ship romance... it is so good. I wish more people read this one.

Night Song as well is one of my favorites. I love Beverly Jenkins so much.

there's actually a second book called Ransom that's really good about a different character.

her most popular book is also my favorite by her, and that is Ravished... I adored this so much.

this one was so good. Shanna is very annoying, but like very headstrong and she makes for a very great plot... It is so again addictive kind of a bonkers plot line. So fun.

If you want like an epic historical romance, Sky O'Malley is the way to go... loved this.

And then The Bride I feel like is equally as iconic as The Secret... A lot of hers have really great banter and push and pull between the characters. They are amazing.

In The Duchess Deal, she literally shows up in a wedding dress because he needs a wife... The rest are phenomenal.

You cannot go wrong with The Duke and I, the Bridgerton series. I will say, The Duke and I was one of my least favorite books in the series. Once you move on, they get so, so good.

I've read The Gift and I really liked it.

I feel like The Secret is another one that is just like a staple in historical romance reading... the push and pull in here was everything. I love this one

Once you move on, they get so, so good. Book two is The Viscount Who Loved Me, which is the oldest brother.

There's one of them where she It might be The Wallflower where she where she has like a ton of animals and like rescue animals, and it's so fun.

We have read in our book club I think The Wolf and the Dove and I thought it was okay

this is literally like one of my all-time favorite historical romances. So emotional, so good.

I also do love To Sir Phillip With Love, and the last two are super cute as well.

But my favorite is definitely When He Was Wicked. So, so angsty.

I ended up giving it three stars because of the history of the book. The romance, not good, but just the idea of why this was so popular at the time period was so interesting to me.

Another one that I would say is the most problematic on this list is Whitney, My Love, and I read the unedited original version... from a historical lens, if you want to read this one, I would recommend it.

I cannot say anything else. This blew my mind. It was so good, so emotional.